Hack for navigating a 3D model in Cardboard1954

Inspired by the great work of some forum members (@vrealstudio), I decided to research an alternative hack to navigate Matterport OBJ models using Google Cardboard, without the need of going through a game engine like Unity.

Granted the quality of OBJ mesh files are not as good as the native Matterport app for Samsung Gear VR, if you follow this short video tutorial and the instructions below, you'll be able to navigate your 3D OBJ models in a matter of minutes.

Here are the steps to follow:

- Sign up for an account with https://sketchfab.com/, which is a sort of YouTube for 3D models. The free account will limit you to 50MB models
- Export one of your models in OBJ
- In Sketchfab (desktop), import your OBJ as a ZIP. After a few minutes of processing, your model will show up, probably with the wrong orientation
- Straighten your model, by going to Settings > 3D Settings and playing with the X,Y,Z values, even better by selecting the Advanced Rotation mode. Then Save your model
- Take your smartphone, open Sketchfab in your device browser, login into your account and look for the 3D Matterport model that you have imported
- Select VR mode > First Person View
- Rotate the device in landscape mode and put it into a Cardboard v.2 (the one with the real button, not the magnets)
- Look around and to proceed step by step, quickly click the button

I can see what your saying but it seems one of the docs knew there might be a way around the issue and decided to give it a try. It worked and now by the looks of things it may be adopted as a better way to do things.